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LG G4 and Qualcomm's Snapdragon 808 Benchmarked
MojoKid writes: LG officially lifted the veil on its new G4 flagship Android phone this week and the buzz has been fairly strong. LG's display prowess is well known, along with their ability to pack a ton of screen real estate into a smaller frame with very little bezel, as they did with the previous generation G3. However, what's under the hood of the new LG G4 is probably just as interesting as the build quality and display, for some. On board the LG G4 is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 808, the six-core little brother of the powerful and power-hungry Snapdragon 810 that's found in HTC's One M9. The One M9 is currently one of the fastest Android handsets out there, but its battery life suffers as a result. So with a six-core Snapdragon and a slightly tamer Adreno 418 graphics engine on board, but also with 3GB of RAM, it's interesting to see where the G4 lands performance-wise. It's basically somewhere between the HTC One M9 (Snapdragon 810) and the Snapdragon 805 in the Nexus 6 in CPU bound workloads, besting even the iPhone 6, but much more middle of the pack in terms of graphics and gaming.
It has a removable battery and SD slot. Unless the camera is complete crap (and I'll bet it's not), this is likely my next phone. My old Samsung S3 is getting long in the tooth.
Do not want.
One thing I find particularly senseless and counterproductive is removal of *all* physical buttons.
The older LG G models had a physical center button and capacitive left and right buttons positioned in the same area of the now useless LG logo at the bottom of the screen of the G4. This new arrangement senselessly wastes display real-estate by taking up screen space which now needs to be dedicated to display of virtual buttons.
Worse than this center button illuminated for notifications.. you were able to set any colors for different types of events and set it to flash so you could just look over and instantly know if there were any missed messages, tasks or calls without powering on the screen in addition to advantage of physical button for answering calls and working task manager.